Cannes Film Festival 2017 line-up announced including Sofia Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos and Twin Peaks
Eighteen films announced for the main competition, including two from Netflix and Amazon
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Your support makes all the difference.The official selection for the 70th Cannes Film Festival has been announced, offering a first look at the independent films we can expect to dominate Oscar-chatter over the coming year.
Eighteen films make up the main competition, notable inclusions being Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, Yorgos Lanthimos follow-up to The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja.
Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories — which will bring Adam Sandler back to the festival — and Okja mark the first film’s produced by Netflix to be in competition at the festival. Amazon studios also make their debut with Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here and Todd Haynes’ Wonderstruck.
Other films to feature include Michael Haneke’s Isabelle Huppert-starring Happy End and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless. Notably, no Hollywood studio films will compete.
Despite showing relatively little television at the festival, two episode’s of David Lynch’s upcoming season of Twin Peaks and two episodes of Jane Campion's Top of the Lake will be screened. The Revenant director Alejandro G. Iñárrituwill also be premiering a Virtual Reality film titled Carne Y Arena.
“The Cannes film festival is a lab,” Festival president Pierre Lescure said at a Press conference, according to Variety. “Even series are using the classical art of cinema and the classical narration. David Lynch and Jane Campion are filmmakers and friends of the Cannes film festival, and we are showing their films.”
In total 49 films from 29 countries will be shown — including 12 by female directors and nine debuts. Arnaud Desplechin — whose last film My Golden Days was screened as part of the 2015 Director’s Fortnight — will open the festival with a screening of new flick Ismael’s Ghosts, which stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marion Cotillard.
The busiest celebrity at this year's festival looks set to be Nicole Kidman, who appears in four titles on the line-up: The Killing of a Sacred Dear, The Beguiled, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, and Top of the Lake.
The full list of competing films is as follows:
Competition
Wonderstruck, Todd Haynes
Le Redoutable, Michel Hazanavicius
Geu-Hu (The Day After), Hong Sangsoo
Hikari (Radiance), Naomi Kawase
The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Yorgos Lanthimos
A Gentle Creature, Sergei Loznitsa
Jupiter's Moon, Kornél Mundruczó
L'amant Double, François Ozon
You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay
Good Time, Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie
Loveless, Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Meyerowitz Stories, Noah Baumbach
Ismael's Ghosts, Arnaud Desplechin
In the Fade, Fatih Akin
Okja, Bong Joon-Ho
120 Battements Par Minute, Robin Campillo
The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola
Rodin, Jacques Doillon
Happy End, Michael Haneke
Out of Competition
Blade of the Immortal, Takashi Miike
How to Talk to Girls at Parties, John Cameron Mitchell
Visages, Visages, JR and Agnès Varda
Un Certain Regard
Barbara, Mathieu Amalric
La Novia del Desierto (The Desert Bride), Cecilia Atán, Valeria Pivato
Jeune Femme, Léonor Serraille
Lerd (Dregs), Mohammad Rasoulof
En Attendant Les Hirondelles (The Nature Of Time), Karim Moussaui
Anpo Suru Shinryakusha (Before We Vanish), Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Out, Gyorgy Kristof
Posoki (Directions), Stephan Komandarev
Western, Valeska Grisebach
Las Hijas De Abril (April’s Daughter), Michel Franco
Fortunata (Lucky). Sergio Castellitto
L’atelier, Laurent Cantet
Aala Kaf Ifrit (Beauty and the Dogs), Kaouther Ben Hania
Tesnota (Closeness), Kantemir Balagov
After The War, Annarita Zambrano
Wind River, Taylor Sheridan
Special Screenings
Clair's Camera, Hong Sangsoo
12 Jours, Raymond Depardon
They, Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Promised Land, Eugene Jarecki
Napalm, Claude Lanzmann
Demons in Paradise, Jude Ratman
Sea Sorrow, Vanessa Redgrave
Midnight Screenings
The Villainess, Jung Byung-Gil
The Merciless, Byun Sung-Hyun
Prayer Before Dawn, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
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